.NET Core Job Trends in England

.NET Core
UK > England

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in England requiring .NET Core skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 3 October 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
3 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 248 371 215
Rank change year-on-year +123 -156 -61
Permanent jobs citing .NET Core 750 303 849
As % of all permanent jobs in England 0.72% 0.70% 1.28%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 7.02% 4.07% 5.87%
Number of salaries quoted 689 275 607
10th Percentile £42,250 £42,500 £36,250
25th Percentile £45,000 £50,000 £46,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £62,500 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year -12.00% +8.70% -4.17%
75th Percentile £70,000 £85,000 £70,000
90th Percentile £87,500 £106,250 £87,500
UK median annual salary £55,000 £63,500 £57,500
% change year-on-year -13.39% +10.43% -4.17%

All Software Libraries and Frameworks
England

.NET Core falls under the Software Libraries and Frameworks category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies requiring technical specification, industry standards, software libraries and framework skills in England.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for technical specification, industry standards, software libraries and framework skills 10,690 7,442 14,455
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 10.28% 17.22% 21.72%
Number of salaries quoted 7,756 4,913 9,061
10th Percentile £42,500 £40,000 £40,000
25th Percentile £51,250 £51,750 £50,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £67,500 £70,000 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year -3.57% +7.69% -6.31%
75th Percentile £87,500 £90,000 £87,500
90th Percentile £100,000 £115,000 £113,500
UK median annual salary £67,500 £69,000 £65,000
% change year-on-year -2.17% +6.15% -3.70%

.NET Core
Job Vacancy Trend in England

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings citing .NET Core relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised in England.

.NET Core job vacancy trend in England

.NET Core
Salary Trend in England

Salary distribution trend for jobs in England citing .NET Core.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in England citing .NET Core

.NET Core
Salary Histogram in England

Salary distribution for jobs citing .NET Core in England over the 6 months to 3 October 2026.

Salary histogram for .NET Core in England

.NET Core
Job Locations in England

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing .NET Core within the England region over the 6 months to 3 October 2026. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 6 month period last year.

Location Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Permanent
IT Job Ads
Median Salary
Past 6 Months
Median Salary
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
South East +95 193 £56,250 -2.17% 74
North of England +45 186 £55,000 - 73
East of England +50 107 £60,000 +14.29% 31
Midlands +35 100 £55,000 -8.33% 37
London -114 91 £77,500 -3.13% 132
North West -4 75 £55,000 - 38
South West -29 74 £52,500 - 16
North East +2 73 £65,000 +30.00% 15
West Midlands +7 59 £55,000 -8.33% 21
East Midlands -2 41 £50,000 -16.67% 16
Yorkshire -17 38 £47,500 -20.83% 21
.NET Core
UK

.NET Core
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in England by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Application Platforms
1 18 (2.40%) SharePoint
2 13 (1.73%) IIS
3 10 (1.33%) CMS
4 7 (0.93%) Confluence
4 7 (0.93%) Umbraco
5 4 (0.53%) Kentico
5 4 (0.53%) Sitecore CMS
6 3 (0.40%) DNN
6 3 (0.40%) EPiServer
6 3 (0.40%) Headless CMS
6 3 (0.40%) Immediacy CMS
6 3 (0.40%) Sitefinity
7 1 (0.13%) Apache
7 1 (0.13%) Apache Spark
Applications
1 7 (0.93%) Microsoft Office
2 2 (0.27%) Chatbot
Business Applications
1 2 (0.27%) Sage 200
2 1 (0.13%) Dynamics CRM
2 1 (0.13%) Elite 3E
2 1 (0.13%) Magento
2 1 (0.13%) Payment Gateway
2 1 (0.13%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 614 (81.87%) Azure
2 215 (28.67%) Azure DevOps
3 150 (20.00%) GitHub
4 133 (17.73%) GitHub Copilot
5 132 (17.60%) AWS
6 129 (17.20%) Azure AI
7 71 (9.47%) Azure Cosmos DB
8 35 (4.67%) Azure Logic Apps
9 33 (4.40%) Power Platform
10 29 (3.87%) Azure Service Bus
11 27 (3.60%) Power Automate
12 24 (3.20%) Azure Monitor
13 23 (3.07%) PowerApps
14 21 (2.80%) Azure Key Vault
14 21 (2.80%) Serverless
15 18 (2.40%) SaaS
16 17 (2.27%) Google Play
17 14 (1.87%) Microsoft 365
18 12 (1.60%) Azure Functions
18 12 (1.60%) GitHub Actions
Communications & Networking
1 45 (6.00%) Internet
2 6 (0.80%) Hyperconnected
3 3 (0.40%) HTTPS
4 2 (0.27%) Firewall
5 1 (0.13%) HTTP
5 1 (0.13%) Network Security
5 1 (0.13%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 422 (56.27%) Azure SQL Database
2 359 (47.87%) MongoDB
3 150 (20.00%) Elasticsearch
4 139 (18.53%) SQL Server
5 27 (3.60%) Relational Database
6 26 (3.47%) Power BI
7 21 (2.80%) MySQL
8 17 (2.27%) PostgreSQL
9 12 (1.60%) Redis
10 11 (1.47%) NonStop SQL
11 10 (1.33%) SQL Server Reporting Services
12 9 (1.20%) Amazon RDS
13 8 (1.07%) NoSQL
14 7 (0.93%) Geospatial Data
14 7 (0.93%) GIS
15 3 (0.40%) Crystal Reports
15 3 (0.40%) Data Warehouse
15 3 (0.40%) ZAP BI
16 2 (0.27%) MariaDB
17 1 (0.13%) HBase
Development Applications
1 73 (9.73%) Git
2 15 (2.00%) JIRA
2 15 (2.00%) NUnit
3 12 (1.60%) Visual Studio
4 10 (1.33%) GitLab
5 7 (0.93%) MSI
5 7 (0.93%) TeamCity
6 6 (0.80%) Jenkins
7 5 (0.67%) Cypress.io
7 5 (0.67%) Postman
7 5 (0.67%) Snyk
8 4 (0.53%) Claude Code
9 3 (0.40%) JUnit
9 3 (0.40%) Selenium
9 3 (0.40%) SonarQube
10 1 (0.13%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 105 (14.00%) Finance
2 77 (10.27%) Social Skills
3 54 (7.20%) Advertising
4 42 (5.60%) Games
5 38 (5.07%) Marketing
6 33 (4.40%) Analytical Skills
6 33 (4.40%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 30 (4.00%) Retail
8 24 (3.20%) Public Sector
9 19 (2.53%) Law
10 14 (1.87%) Aerospace
11 11 (1.47%) Banking
11 11 (1.47%) Music Industry
12 10 (1.33%) Legal
13 7 (0.93%) Influencing Skills
14 5 (0.67%) Local Government
14 5 (0.67%) Presentation Skills
15 4 (0.53%) Automotive
15 4 (0.53%) Investment Banking
15 4 (0.53%) Manufacturing
Job Titles
1 637 (84.93%) Developer
2 524 (69.87%) .NET Developer
3 98 (13.07%) Senior
4 72 (9.60%) Software Developer
5 70 (9.33%) Senior Developer
6 64 (8.53%) C# Developer
7 50 (6.67%) Lead
8 48 (6.40%) C# .NET Developer
9 41 (5.47%) Full-Stack Developer
10 36 (4.80%) Software Engineer
11 33 (4.40%) Lead Developer
12 30 (4.00%) Senior .NET Developer
13 29 (3.87%) Senior C# Developer
14 27 (3.60%) .NET Software Developer
15 22 (2.93%) Senior Software Developer
16 20 (2.67%) Full-Stack Engineer
16 20 (2.67%) Lead .NET Developer
17 18 (2.40%) C# Software Developer
18 17 (2.27%) .NET Software Engineer
18 17 (2.27%) Senior C# .NET Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 750 (100.00%) .NET
2 500 (66.67%) ASP.NET
3 434 (57.87%) ASP.NET Core
4 231 (30.80%) CSS
5 229 (30.53%) HTML
6 221 (29.47%) Entity Framework
7 206 (27.47%) Blazor
8 205 (27.33%) React
9 193 (25.73%) AngularJS
10 179 (23.87%) RESTful
11 167 (22.27%) ASP.NET Web API
12 163 (21.73%) Vue
13 150 (20.00%) Node.js
14 144 (19.20%) .NET Framework
15 126 (16.80%) ML.NET
16 107 (14.27%) LINQ
17 76 (10.13%) REST
18 44 (5.87%) JSON
19 32 (4.27%) WPF
20 27 (3.60%) Terraform
Miscellaneous
1 86 (11.47%) Greenfield Project
2 63 (8.40%) Enterprise Software
3 21 (2.80%) Legacy Systems
4 20 (2.67%) Mobile App
5 19 (2.53%) Digital TV
6 18 (2.40%) Cloud Native
7 17 (2.27%) iPhone
8 15 (2.00%) Distributed Systems
9 14 (1.87%) Product Ownership
10 11 (1.47%) Sports Betting
11 10 (1.33%) BBC
11 10 (1.33%) Onboarding
11 10 (1.33%) Self-Motivation
11 10 (1.33%) Social Media
11 10 (1.33%) Social Network
12 9 (1.20%) Low-Code
13 8 (1.07%) Hedge funds
14 7 (0.93%) Algorithms
14 7 (0.93%) Renewable Energy
14 7 (0.93%) Tandem
Operating Systems
1 23 (3.07%) Windows
2 17 (2.27%) Android
3 4 (0.53%) Windows Server
4 2 (0.27%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 501 (66.80%) Full-Stack Development
2 395 (52.67%) Agile
3 267 (35.60%) CI/CD
4 255 (34.00%) DevOps
5 207 (27.60%) Microservices
6 163 (21.73%) AI
7 137 (18.27%) Machine Learning
7 137 (18.27%) Multithreading
8 102 (13.60%) Scrum
9 90 (12.00%) Software Engineering
10 80 (10.67%) OO
10 80 (10.67%) TDD
11 66 (8.80%) BDD
12 62 (8.27%) Kanban
13 58 (7.73%) Problem-Solving
14 57 (7.60%) Don't repeat yourself (DRY)
15 56 (7.47%) Mentoring
16 47 (6.27%) SDLC
16 47 (6.27%) User Experience
17 46 (6.13%) Continuous Improvement
Programming Languages
1 699 (93.20%) C#
2 490 (65.33%) SQL
3 257 (34.27%) JavaScript
4 196 (26.13%) TypeScript
5 25 (3.33%) Python
6 18 (2.40%) PowerShell
7 13 (1.73%) T-SQL
8 12 (1.60%) Java
9 10 (1.33%) VBA
10 9 (1.20%) Bicep
11 4 (0.53%) Bash
11 4 (0.53%) Kotlin
11 4 (0.53%) Ruby
11 4 (0.53%) VB.NET
12 3 (0.40%) Go
12 3 (0.40%) VBScript
13 2 (0.27%) C
13 2 (0.27%) Dart
14 1 (0.13%) Delphi
14 1 (0.13%) PHP
Qualifications
1 61 (8.13%) Degree
2 28 (3.73%) SC Cleared
2 28 (3.73%) Security Cleared
3 22 (2.93%) Computer Science Degree
4 8 (1.07%) Master's Degree
5 6 (0.80%) AWS Certification
6 3 (0.40%) Azure Certification
6 3 (0.40%) ICAEW
6 3 (0.40%) OCP
6 3 (0.40%) Oracle Certification
7 2 (0.27%) DBS Check
7 2 (0.27%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 31 (4.13%) QA
2 24 (3.20%) Accessibility
3 7 (0.93%) NCSC
3 7 (0.93%) WCAG
4 4 (0.53%) Data Quality
5 3 (0.40%) GDPR
5 3 (0.40%) NIST
6 2 (0.27%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 1 (0.13%) Basel III
System Software
1 184 (24.53%) Docker
2 1 (0.13%) HDFS
Systems Management
1 163 (21.73%) Kubernetes
2 3 (0.40%) Ansible
2 3 (0.40%) Grafana
2 3 (0.40%) Prometheus
3 1 (0.13%) Control-M
Vendors
1 498 (66.40%) Microsoft
2 50 (6.67%) Facebook
3 44 (5.87%) Google
4 21 (2.80%) YouTube
5 11 (1.47%) Adobe
6 10 (1.33%) Apple
6 10 (1.33%) Sony
6 10 (1.33%) Yahoo!
7 7 (0.93%) OpenAI
8 6 (0.80%) Red Hat
9 4 (0.53%) Sitecore
9 4 (0.53%) Splunk
10 3 (0.40%) Alterian
10 3 (0.40%) Optimizely
10 3 (0.40%) Workday
11 2 (0.27%) CrowdStrike
11 2 (0.27%) Databricks
11 2 (0.27%) IFS
11 2 (0.27%) Sage
11 2 (0.27%) Veracode